The late producer came from hardship and knew his history, which allowed him to see—and invent—the future of music.

He played the trumpet with Lionel Hampton, produced albums ('Thriller'), songs ("We Are the World," "It's My Party"), films ('The Color Purple') and TV shows ('Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'), scored movies ...

Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing,” his family ...

Producer, songwriter and composer Quincy Jones has died at age 91. His publicist says he died Sunday night at his home in Los Angeles.

However, it all came to a brief but screeching halt in 1974, when he'd developed a life-threatening brain aneurysm. He told GQ that at the time, when he was just 41, he felt a searing pain in his head ...

(Reuters) - Quincy Jones, the man known simply as "Q," was a huge influence ... There was very little Jones did not do in a music career of more than 65 years. He was a trumpeter, bandleader, arranger ...

Remembering a Legacy of Musical Brilliance and Humanitarian Spirit. Quincy Jones was more than just a name in the world of ...

A friend of Quincy Jones, the titan of music whose death was announced on Monday, recalled how the all-night jam sessions ...

Yesterday, the legendary musician, producer, and actor Quincy Jones passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 91. A man with a ...

Quincy Jones Sr., moved Jones and his brother to Bremerton, Washington. When he was 12, Jones began playing trumpet at Bremerton’s Coontz Junior High. In 1947, after Jones’s father remarried, he moved ...

From Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson, jazz to hip-hop, Jones tracked the ever-fluctuating pulse of pop over his seven-decade-plus career -- most often manipulating the beat himself ...

Quincy Jones was known to generations of fans due to a career that spanned from the radio to the big screen and the small.